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Georgia Mann

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. This week's Essential Performers are the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Presented by Georgia Mann.

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with familiar favourites alongside new discoveries and musical surprises.

0915 Playlist starter – listen and send us your ideas for the next step in our musical journey today.

1010 Song of the Day – harnessing the magic of words, music and the human voice.

1030 Playlist reveal – a sequence of music suggested by you in response to our starter today.

1100 Essential Performers – the first of five tracks this week showcasing the Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

1130 Slow Moment – time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 29 Aug 2022 09:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Happiness (Waltz Suite Op.110)

    Orchestra: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 - Waltz Suite.
    • Naxos.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Coffee, I must have coffee (Coffee-Cantata, BWV.211)

    Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Director: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S.Bach: Secular Cantatas BWV 210 & 211.
    • BIS.
    • 14.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sextet in E flat major Op.81b (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Gaudier Ensemble.
    • Beethoven: Septet; Sextet.
    • HELIOS.
    • 9.
  • Percy Whitlock

    Spade and Bucket Polka (Holiday Suite)

    Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Marco Polo.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse Caprice in D, Op.4

    Performer: Mami Shikimori.
    • NAXOS.
  • Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal

    Oscarine

    • Chamber Music.
    • No Format!.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Ravel

    Music Arranger: Aleksander Dębicz. Music Arranger: Łukasz Kuropaczewski. Performer: Aleksander Dębicz. Performer: Łukasz Kuropaczewski.
    • Adela.
    • WM Poland/WMI.
    • 6.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    La belle Hélène (Overture)

    Orchestra: ѿý Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • French Bonbons: ѿý Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.
  • Franz Danzi

    Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major (3rd mvt)

    Music Arranger: Eugen Bodart. Ensemble: Les Vents Français. Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Daniel Giglberger.
    • Concertante!.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 3.
  • George Butterworth

    English Idyll no.1

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle: English Rhapsody.
    • Halle.
    • 2.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    The Silver Swan

    Music Arranger: Christian Forshaw. Singer: Grace Davidson. Performer: Christian Forshaw. Performer: Alexander Mason.
    • Historical Fiction.
    • Integra Records.
  • Joachim Raff

    Romeo and Juliet - overture

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Edward White

    Puffin' Billy for orchestra

    Orchestra: New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • HYPERION.
  • Josef Strauss

    Auf Ferienreisen Polka

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Best of New Year's Concert: Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 13.
  • Francis Poulenc

    L'embarquement pour Cythère

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • Philips.
  • John Ireland

    Sea Fever

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Iain Burnside.
    • NAXOS.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sun Dance (The Wand of Youth Suite no.1)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • Elgar: Wand of Youth Suites No.1 & 2: New Zealand SO/Judd.
    • Naxos.
    • 4.
  • John A. Glover-Kind

    I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

    Performer: Reginald Dixon.
    • The Magic Of Reginald Dixon.
    • Music For Pleasure.
    • 1.
  • Claude Debussy

    Pour le piano (Toccata)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 21.
  • Giovanni Sollima

    L.B. Files (Concerto)

    Performer: Giovanni Sollima. Ensemble: Kaleidoskop Solistensemble. Conductor: Julian Kuerti.
    • We Were Trees Deluxe Edition.
    • Dedalo.
    • 2.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet no. 4 (Pastorale)

    Performer: Johan Löfving. Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
    • Fandango! Music for Solo Guitar and String Quartet.
    • Resonus Classics.
    • 8.
  • Julius Fucik

    Florentiner-Marsch Op.214

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band. Conductor: John Anderson.
    • Brassed off.
    • RCA.
    • 11.
  • Mel Bonis

    Flute Sonata (1st mvt)

    Performer: Kenneth Smith. Performer: Paul Rhodes.
    • To Pan and Syrinx.
    • Divine Art.
    • 401.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no.41 in C major K.551 'Jupiter' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger

    Canario

    Performer: Matthew Wadsworth. Performer: Gary Cooper. Performer: Mark Levy.
    • Kapsberger/Piccinini: 14 Silver Strings: Matthew Wadsworth.
    • Deux-Elles.
    • 22.
  • Robert Plant

    Stairway to Heaven

    Composer: Jimmy Page. Performer: Rick Wakeman.
    • Universal Music Enterprises.
  • Ēriks Ešenvalds

    The Heavens' Flock

    Choir: Portland State University Chamber Choir. Conductor: Ethan Sperry.
    • Translations.
    • Naxos.
    • 201.
  • Leó Weiner

    Csűrdöngölő [Barn dance] (Két Tétel)

    Performer: Andreas Ottensamer. Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Christoph Koncz. Performer: Antoine Tamestit. Performer: Stephan Koncz. Performer: Ödön Rácz. Performer: Oszkár Ökrös. Performer: Predrag Tomic.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Carl Frühling

    Trio in A minor, Op.40 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Brahms, Fruhling: Clarinet Trios; Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen.
    • RCA Red Seal.
    • 10.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Rossini: Overtures: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

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